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FTC says AT&T has agreed to pay $60M to settle the agency's 2014 lawsuit that alleged it lied to customers about “unlimited” data plans that it throttled — Unlimited should mean unlimited! — On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission announced that AT&T will pay $60 million to settle a case with the agency.
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Tweets: @aneternalenigma, @ftc, @rsingel, and @kifleswing
| Dylan Byers / NBC News: |
Sources: Zuckerberg remains open to some ideas about how to control political ads, including limiting the ability of candidates to microtarget users — Banning microtargeting has the support of Ellen Weintraub, chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission, which regulates how money is raised and spent in elections.
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Tweets: @zachmontellaro, @ellenlweintraub, @digiphile, @profcarroll, @alexhern, @dellcam, and @jason_kint
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Civil rights leaders from 10 groups dined with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Nick Clegg to discuss Facebook's political ad rules and more — Activists are hopeful they're getting through to the Facebook chief.
Tweets: @slpng_giants and @smac0905
| Yaël Eisenstat / Washington Post: |
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| Brandon Kochkodin / Bloomberg: |
Users on Reddit say they have discovered a flaw in Robinhood's system that lets them trade stocks with excess borrowed funds, essentially free money — A glitch in the Robinhood Markets Inc. system is allowing users to trade stocks with excess borrowed funds, giving them access to what amounts to free money.
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CNBC, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, KnowTechie, and Zero Hedge
Tweets: @thestalwart, @bdkoepke, @jacobcanfield, @alex, and @joshconstine
| Washington Post: |
Overview of TikTok's evolving censorship approach: ex-US staff say Chinese bosses set rules on videos with heavy kissing, political topics, subversive content — Managers insist they are revamping policies to give American staff greater autonomy from Beijing.
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The Hill, Business Insider, New York Times, and MediaNama
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google promises one more update coming in December for the original Google Pixel, which will then be past its three-year security update support window — Pour one out for Pixel — The Google Pixel and Pixel XL will get “one final software update” in December, the company confirms to The Verge.
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Gizmodo, 9to5Google, 9to5Google, Android Authority, Digital Trends, XDA Developers, Ars Technica, Droid Life, Lifehacker, Android Police, Liliputing, and Thurrott. Tweets: @barbarakrasnoff
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Kaspersky identifies DarkUniverse, an APT that had been active from 2009 but went silent after a mention in Shadow Brokers' 2017 leak, and details 20 victims — The NSA had superior insight into foreign nation-state hacking operations than many cyber-security vendors.
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Securelist, CyberScoop, Ars Technica, and Security Affairs
Tweets: @campuscodi, @k_sec, and @jeffstone500
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Xiaomi unveils the CC9 Pro, featuring a 108MP camera with 5x optical zoom, 6.47" AMOLED display, 5,260mAh battery, and Android 9, available in China for ~$400 — The CC9 Pro has five rear cameras — Xiaomi has been teasing the idea for a few months now, and it's finally here: the CC9 Pro …
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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: |
Google, non-profit lowRISC, and others debut OpenTitan, a project for open sourced “root of trust” chip designs, aiming for more secure, auditable datacenters — As soon as the power turns on, hackers can gain an advantage. — The cloud runs the world.
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ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @kennwhite, @pinboard, @howelloneill, @dcuthbert, and @jckichen
| Washington Post: |
Apple and TikTok drew criticism from lawmakers, especially Sen. Josh Hawley, for skipping a congressional hearing meant to explore tech industry's ties to China — Apple and TikTok took a lashing Tuesday for skipping a congressional hearing meant to explore the tech industry and its ties to China …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Facebook Portal TV review: big screen video chatting feels futuristic and, with Alexa built in, the device is compelling enough at $149 but unlikely to be a hit — Facebook's new Portal TV video chat device won't do much to take away share from Apple Inc., Roku Inc. or Amazon in the TV space.
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CNET, BuzzFeed News, CNBC, and Engadget
Tweets: @cnet, @meganwollerton, @markgurman, and @cnet
| Jennifer Langston / Microsoft: |
Microsoft teams up with Warner Bros to store and retrieve the 1978 movie Superman on a piece of glass as a proof of concept test for Project Silica research — Microsoft and Warner Bros. have collaborated to successfully store and retrieve the entire 1978 iconic “Superman” …
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Tweets: @imbrandonbrown, @amianet, @msftresearch, @lindydonna, @markrussinovich, @matvelloso, and @umerazad
| Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age: |
YouTube announces “Shopping” ads, a scrollable catalog of static images, which will appear on the home feed and in search results — Puma among first brands to utilize new ad format — YouTube is introducing “Shopping” ads in time for the holiday season.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Mozilla is working to fix a Firefox bug being actively exploited by scammers, which causes the browser to lock up after displaying a warning message — Fraudulent tech-support sites cause Firefox to freeze while displaying scary message. — Scammers are actively exploiting a bug in Firefox …
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A warrant granted in Florida this July let a detective override GEDmatch's privacy rules to search a database of 1.2M users; experts say it may set a precedent — Privacy experts say it could set a precedent, opening up all consumer DNA sites to law enforcement agencies across the country.
Tweets: @xoamelia, @kashhill, @michaelroston, @privacyproject, @ericajoy, @richfelker, @kashhill, and @tsdower
| Ayanti Bera / Reuters: |
Match reports Q3 revenue of $541.5M, up 22% YoY, says it added 437K average Tinder subscribers for a total of 5.7M, forecasts disappointing Q4; stock down ~15% — (Reuters) - Tinder-owner Match Group Inc (MTCH.O) forecast fourth-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Tuesday …
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| NoCamels: |
Israel-based Riskified, an e-commerce fraud prevention platform, raises $165M Series E at a valuation of $1B+ led by General Atlantic — Israeli fraud prevention platform Riskified announced on Tuesday that it raised a Series E funding round of $165 million led by General Atlantic … | Catherine Perloff / Forbes: |
Israel-based Papaya Global, a payroll platform to manage international workforces, with clients like Microsoft, Intel, and Robinhood, raises $45M Series A — When venture capital firm Insight Partners called Papaya Global cofounder and CEO Eynat Guez to learn more about her payroll startup … | Kiley Roache / Bloomberg: |
Freedom House report concludes global internet freedom declined for the ninth year in 2019; surveillance and disinformation have increased, including in the US — - Freedom House says AI opens up new ways for mass surveillance — U.S. score drops amid increased monitoring of social media| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
HomeLight, which runs an AI-powered platform for home buyers, sellers, and real estate agents, raises $109M led by Zeev Ventures, bringing total raised to $160M — San Francisco-based HomeLight, which develops AI-driven software and services for home buyers, sellers, and real estate agents … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube debuts Super Stickers, which show up in chat, as a new way for creators to make money; since Super Chat's 2017 launch over 100,000 channels have used it — YouTube today is expanding the ways creators can make money with the global launch of a new feature, Super Stickers.
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